Are Londoners UNFRIENDLY?

Are Londoners unfriendly?


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I’m noy saying Walthamstow doesn’t have it’s charms but the last time I was there was for a BACKSTREET WRESTLING MATCH.
Is THAT what the kids are calling it these days?
 
Walthamstow is really rather nice these days. I have several friends who moved there and when I last went to visit it looked totally different to how it was years ago.
The old village bit was quite nice but then it was over ten years ago I went...
 
There was a blip during covid when everyone was working from home and not having to rush about everywhere that the londoners didn't seem quite as miserable when I was there.

Alas, it was back to normal this past week. I think they're all just jaded with life.
 
My entire family roots on both sides are from South East London. It is my spiritual (and actual) home.
 
My experience of London is plenty and mostly in the form of partying and nightlife. I can 100% say that people in London are less friendly than elsewhere.
 
My experience of London is plenty and mostly in the form of partying and nightlife. I can 100% say that people in London are less friendly than elsewhere.
Are people in London actually Londoners though? While I love that we’re a hotch-potch from all over, going out in Zone 1 at least, actual Londoners will be a slim percentage of the nightlife.
 
Where's the IDK option, I've met quite a few during my lifetime but not all of them have been rude and unfriendly.
 
Are people in London actually Londoners though? While I love that we’re a hotch-potch from all over, going out in Zone 1 at least, actual Londoners will be a slim percentage of the nightlife.
My social life was spectacular for over ten years in London, only killed by COVID and PREGNANCY. Made new friends every weekend for years although I did live the terrible stereotypical Single Gal Round Town (Hackney) life for most of it. Londoners just don’t do loads of small talk but most people I met always wanted to make actual new connections.

Want unfriendly try moving to commuter land where people hang out with their existing networks and have no interest in expanding them more. I’ve made new friends now (they’re all Up From London as well :rolleyes: )
 
Welsh people, particularly North Wales are not approachable. At least to the English, they’re actively rude.
 
I think it depends entirely on context. As has been said, Londoners are BUSY. Don't try and give your tedious life story to someone who is obviously GOING SOMEWHERE and just wants to get there ASAP without being bothered. However, if you later happen to see them in the pub, that's different.
 
Welsh people, particularly North Wales are not approachable. At least to the English, they’re actively rude.
I've had very much the same experience in mid Wales, but never particularly in South Wales. Cardiff to me particularly feels like a friendly city. I do like small capital cities.

People in Newport seem quite miserable more so than unfriendly, but if I woke up every day and realised I was still living there, I probably would be, too.
 
One of my colleagues who is from Albania was telling me she was in a shop and a kid needed the toilet desperately. My colleague told the mother there was a toilet nearby in the shopping centre incase she didn't know. The mother launched at her telling her to keep her mind out of her business etc etc etc. She said since then she'll never offer to talk to anyone in London!
 
I was in a suburb with the most intense small town mentality and it was suffocating. Anyone who grew up in a suburb will relate.
Also being Merseyside born I can absolutely relate. Living in a major city (not London) for a few years was a massive culture shock to me but I grew a lot during that time.

I like the suburbs, it is home, I enjoy peace and quiet and simple things but I can’t say I love all the people here.
 
Londoners are unfriendly. It's not their fault, it's just big city syndrome. You get so bored of crowds of everything that you learn to just mind yourself. It's the same in most big cities around the world (there are exceptions)

When engaged in a relaxed environment they're friendly enough. I'd actually say in that instance they're friendlier than a lot of the south.

NOW DO A POLL ON THE SOUTH
 
It could be a southerner thing, not just London. :D At first, probably yes, it's more that they seem to lack warm hospitality, or it doesn't present as genuinely as most people from the northern areas, Scotland, or Northern Ireland (Wales is more mixed I think). 😅 I'm from the Midlands, but my accent is closer to RP; my parents lived in London before.
Also during my 3 years at uni (outside of London, sort of south-west) the ones from Birmingham and above had a friendlier overall vibe, as in they seemed more interested in what you have to say, than talking about first-world problems. That could just be some in their late-teens-early 20s though.
I have uncles and aunties in their 30s-40s who grew up in London. Despite not keeping in contact much, they generally seem decent, relatively down-to-earth. :)
 
Before visiting London lots in the last couple of years, I thought Londoners were rude and unfriendly.

But since going multiple times recently I don't think that at all.

They're very different to islanders tho, we will say hello to strangers on a walk, talk to strangers on buses and trains etc.

Whereas Londoners seem to keep themselves to themselves, however, I've found when you speak to them, ask for something, pay onia shop, order food etc, they're super friendly and helpful.
 

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